Now that we are in the middle of "Recovery Summer" watching poor jobs numbers spill out (like today's ADP unemployment figures), we can watch as the Obama administration keeps trying to get the oil clean up right. My guess is that we are moving towards "Spotless September" which will be celebrated by finding every beach from Brownsville to Cape Hatteras fouled with a major oil spill. The disconnect between Obama's words and deeds has become so great that one has to wonder if the folks at the White House are all delusional. Do they really think that by calling it recovery summer that the American people will not notice that things are getting worse rather than better? After celebrating the supposed "huge" rise in jobs in May which was 95% temporary census workers, will Obama now explain away the coming decline in the June figures as layoffs of the same temporary workers? Americans are notorious for paying little attention to the government and the news in most cases. Not this one! Too many folks are directly affected by unemployment and fear of unemployment to miss the fact that Obama has done more to destroy jobs than to create them. The oil spill mess has led Obama to wipe out the drilling industry and much of the economy along the Gulf. The inability to clean up in a timely fashion has destroyed the fishing industry and dealt a mortal blow to the tourism industry. something like 25% of the Louisiana economy has been wiped out by this; a competent response could have kept the damage much, much smaller. And the oil spill just keeps coming. Obama has waited for months before allowing new ideas to be tried -- look at the aid from other countries that he blocked for 9 weeks. My guess is that now that the foreign aid is coming, there will be some new roadblock from the feds that will stop it.
Doesn't the USA deserve a competent president? I think so. Obama has got to go!
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